Homer. Ilias Ambrosiana , one of 800 copies, original pictorial vellum, gilt, Bern & Olten, 1953.
Homer. Ilias Ambrosiana Cod. F. 205 P. INF. Bibliothecae Ambrosianae Mediolanensis, number 111 of 800 copies, text in Latin with introduction and captions to plates in Italian, German, English and French, colour plates cut to shape of original fragments and tipped in, illustrations, leather book-label of Haven O'More, with prospectus loosely inserted, original pictorial vellum, gilt, preserved in wrapper, a fine copy in original cloth slip-case with flap (slightly faded), 4to, Bern & Olten, 1953.
⁂ Study of the Homeric codex in Milan, the earliest extant example of a Greek illuminated manuscript, of which only fragments remain.
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Homer. Ilias Ambrosiana Cod. F. 205 P. INF. Bibliothecae Ambrosianae Mediolanensis, number 111 of 800 copies, text in Latin with introduction and captions to plates in Italian, German, English and French, colour plates cut to shape of original fragments and tipped in, illustrations, leather book-label of Haven O'More, with prospectus loosely inserted, original pictorial vellum, gilt, preserved in wrapper, a fine copy in original cloth slip-case with flap (slightly faded), 4to, Bern & Olten, 1953.
⁂ Study of the Homeric codex in Milan, the earliest extant example of a Greek illuminated manuscript, of which only fragments remain.
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